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The Cruise of the Snark

by Jack London

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  1. Chapter I -- Foreword

    22:23

  2. Chapter II -- The Inconceivable And Monstrous

    31:31

  3. Chapter III -- Adventure

    17:25

  4. Chapter IV -- Finding One's Way About

    23:12

  5. Chapter V -- The First Landfall

    15:11

  6. Chapter VI -- A Royal Sport

    24:20

  7. Chapter VII -- The Lepers Of Molokai

    30:42

  8. Chapter VIII -- The House Of The Sun

    29:06

  9. Chapter IX -- A Pacific Traverse

    35:49

  10. Chapter X -- Typee

    30:51

  11. Chapter XI -- The Nature Man

    27:49

  12. Chapter XII -- The High Seat of Abundance

    38:29

  13. Chapter XIII -- The Stone-fishing of Bora Bora

    15:15

  14. Chapter XIV -- The Amateur Navigator

    40:05

  15. Chapter XV -- Cruising in the Solomons

    38:45

  16. Chapter XVI -- Beche de Mer English

    15:39

  17. Chapter XVII -- The Amateur M.D.

    39:03

  18. Back Word

    10:04

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Plans for an ocean voyage take shape beside a swimming pool at Glen Ellen, where Jack London and his companions talk about the seaworthiness of small boats. A suggestion made in fun becomes a decision to build the Snark. London connects that decision to his pleasure in physical achievement, recalling the strain and satisfaction of steering a schooner through a typhoon off Japan. His opening makes the proposed voyage an expression of personal appetite for difficult tasks.

This travel memoir combines such reflections with accounts of sailing and encounters ashore. Its chapters cover finding a course, a Pacific crossing, stone-fishing at Bora Bora and cruising in the Solomons. London dedicates the book to Charmian, the mate who took the wheel during passages and emergencies. The middle excerpt describes a village feast and the ceremonial arrival of roasted pigs. Readers interested in ocean travel will find practical concerns alongside an outspoken account of what draws the author to sea.

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Jack London

Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist and adventurer whose tales of the Yukon and the sea·The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf·made him one of the most popular writers of his time.

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